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Title: Where to emigrate and why : describe the climate--soil--productions--minerals and general resources--amount of public lands--the quality and price of farm lands in nearly all sections of the United States; and contains a description of the Pacific railroad--the homestead and other land laws--rates of wages throughout the country, etc., etc.
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Goddard, Frederick B. (Frederick Bartlett), b. 1834
Subjects: United States -- Economic conditions 1865-1918 United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Frederick B. Goddard
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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, which cover at least three-fourths of theState. These natural meadows, covered with nutritiousgrasses, stretch out in a series of graceful undulations, like theswell of the sea, and in the season of flowers are clothed witha brilliant vesture of honey»ucl<les, jessamines, and violets.Frequent fringes of hazel or willow indicate the course of clear,winding brooks, hastening to swell the tide of larger streams,whose grove-belted margins can be traced until the greenfoliage seems to mingle with land and sky, and soften intohazy blue. It has been said of Iowa, that the monotony ofits very beauty and fertility becomes tiresome. While there are no mountains in Iowa, portions of its north-ern surface are hilly and rugged, abounding in lakes, andrapid rivers tumbling over rocky ledges. This section of Iowais not so well timbered as farther south, and is better adaptedto grazing than tillage, although possessing frequent valleysand stretches of rolling prairie, unsurpassed for beauty and
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IOWA. 249 fertility by any portion of the State. Along tlie Mississippiand Missouri rivers, and others of the larger streams, are nu-merous limestone blufis, often rising to the height of more thana hundred feet. Frequently the water-courses have worndeep ravines in these bluffs, and carved them into fantasticresemblance of old feudal castles, with turrets, and bastions, andbattlements. These elevations are generally covered with ver-dure, and slope back into the prairie in successive undulations. Iowa has a length from east to west of 300 miles, and abreadth of 208. Its area embraces 55,045 square miles, equalto 35,228,800 acres. There are yet to be disposed of in thisState, more than three million acres of public land. Iowa owes its prosperity mainly to its agricultural resourcesand advantages. Prairie larms are easily and cheaply open-ed, and are more quickly made profitable than forest lands,which must first be cleared. Compared to the lifetime oflabor it takes to open a farm in t

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